Lot's of things to report here, I don't know where to start. So I'll give a big welcome to all my new watchers that I suddenly met through the unexpected success of my
Where subscriber's money goes deviation, a big thanks to
for featuring it as my 5th Daily Deviation and the no-less-than 5 people that suggested it, and also a big thanks to the random streak of generosity by
that bought me a new subscription, I figured I could at least feature a few of his works to return the favour
Thanks a lot to EVERYONE for their recent support!!!
Even excluding that crazyness, it's been unusually eventful for me so far in other things, but many still relate to deviantART and what I do on it. I've been working hard on many personal projects and contest entries that everyone will see as time passes and I submit e'm one by one. But perhaps one of the most outstanding big things I've been spending the past few weeks on is building up material to try and sell over at Cornucopia 3D, the online stock-shop for anyone who like me, has Vue and uses it a damn lot!
with originality in mind, along with ideas for what the store seems to be lacking, hopefully I'll make more money from making stuff that 3D artists can actually use to fill in for the almost nothing that I get from here (its true, I haven't had a commission offer in about 6 months and got a total of about 3 in all last year
)
One of these resources will be a set of planets and other universal paraphilia so Vue artists who don't have, or know how to use Photoshop can FINALLY make decent space-scenery using nothing but Vue alone, the best part is, it's all function-based as far as materials go, not a single memory-hungry image-based material is involved. The first of some test-renders is seen below:
While on the topic of Vue, I remember promising
that I’d promote his personal site <a href=
[link]">Quadspinner - highly beneficial information and resources for anyone who wants to breach the limit’s of Vue and create stunning works, it’s more than just a landscape rendering program and the works of both him and myself and our new discoveries (like how I managed to pull of a Terragen2 – esque planet up there) are proof that it can be quite versatile with some creative thinking and a lot of time. When I finally get around to setting up a store account on Cornucopia, I will update every time something new from me comes there, and some free stocks for both Vue and Photoshop are still on my list of things to do here, but I’m so busy with other things that I wouldn’t count on it for a while. For now, Vue users will get a kick out of this, which is also by the same guy!
Creating HyperTerrains
Finally, the reason why I’m busy making one work after another whilist neglecting more important issues is since a whole bunch of contests that I’m interested in just happened to come about at the same time as each other. This part is mainly just for my sake so I won’t forget about them since I’ll see them every time I view my page.
The "Almost definitely" pile:
eARTh contest #4: (not announced yet, must add when it is)
Progress competition:
[link] Ends April 30th
Kick your own @ss:
[link] ends June 28th
Best in the land: Done!
The "Maybe if I have time" pile:
deviantMAP contest: Done!
Illustration contest:
[link] ends June 4th
Man I'm looking forward to that "kick your own @ss" one, I';m already thinking of what older works I should try re-making fr it, and with unlimited entries, I can go nuts, but I'll try and limit myself to three. Maybe one for each "main" category I work in, imagine what old deviations like these below would look like if were done again today with my current skill level
See, one character illustration, a scene, and a space work,I may change my mind and perhaps add more later, but I think these might make the coolest remakes so far
Anyway, this journal is ridiculously long again, I didn't expect too many to read it, but this is a good personal record and reminder for me anyway. So it's time well spent!
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after I got better, I went through the letters I got and found one that had nothing but $20 and a note describing one of my posters. It looked like someone made a mistake and accidentally gave me their money without getting a poster. I want to return that money so If it was you, please e-mail me at Yuumei.yan@gmail.com with your name and address.
Optimism 
anyway, I love your work, not sure, but yours remind me a bit of MYST, Vue must be a great program, I wish I used it for landscapes, I could do some truly wicked stuff If i got good at 3d and Vue, but I suck at all the complexity of rendering, mapping, texturing and rigging, modeling was the only thing I liked when I was at course.
Well, keep up the great work, and good luck with all your endeavors!
Ugh, yeah, I've lost to some really undeserving winner's too, but luckily not as much on here as in real life (hence why I stopped entering any art competitions in real life ages ago)
I still don't know how to properly texture-map something either, my course was basic and we didn't learn anything other than modelling and animating. So while certain things like landscapes and sometimes buildings aren't a problem - things like people, characters and animals are just way beyond my 3D capabilities, but when it comes to characters, I prefer drawing them anyway (most 3D render's of people end up looking hideous!)
Your'e in luck though! only today the most basic version of Vue called "Vue 7 pioneer" has become free!
It's too complicated for me to do texturing properly, I saw how hard it is to do realistic people in 3d, and it's far beyond MOST people! man, the programs and things you need just to do realistic hair is ridiculous.
Wicked! I'm downloading that right now! thanks for that man! ^^
Ohh, and I'm looking at your project you sent a link for.
I guess Vue to an extent can be considered "lazy" since things like trees, textures, skies and all that are there for you, that's why I try to use as many custom trees or self-made materials etc as I can, and also Photoshop over the render in most cases for a bit of an artistic feel